skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A great quote at the beginning of Chapter Eight: Getting Along With People [0]

"If you like people, if you seek contact with them rather than hiding yourself in a corner, if you study your fellow men sympathetically, if you try consistently to contribute something to their success and happiness, if you are reasonably generous with your thoughts and your time, if you have a partial reserve with everyone but a seeming reserve with no one, if you work to be interesting rather than spend to be a good fellow, you will get along with your superiors, your subordinates, your orderly, your roommate and the human race."

[0] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25482/25482-h/25482-h.htm#CH...
I don't understand how the crisis in Yemen, greatly exacerbated by MBS and supported by the US government, a crisis in which 200k+ Yemenis have been killed (including 80k+ children dead who starved to death), 3 million+ displaced, with the deadliest cholera outbreak in modern history - isn't on the front page news every day. Every little tidbit of court minutae at the venal Trump White House was covered (which press secretary was leaving, who was getting pardons), but not this enormous crisis that the US has direct control over.

It was disgusting how easily MBS was fawned over (see this absurd feature on MBS by Thomas Friedman [1]), how the Western media only cared about one of their own (Khashoggi was a WaPo journalist), and how quickly companies are coming back to back MBS's fantastical investment schemes like the Jetsons city-from-scratch NEOM, after stepping back for just a year.

The US doesn't even import all that much oil from Saudi Arabia! It's only use is as a lever to press other countries that rely on Saudi oil to come under the US fold.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/23/opinion/saudi-prince-mbs-...
There are online services that let you upload a PDF, and they'll fax it for you.
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Yes.

Probably because people who create "real apps" and not just "docs on steroids" know what they're in for right from the start.

If you start with a doc, you can get the feeling that there is much more headroom than there actually is.
That's an excellent point and not easy to demonstrate until someone does experience an edge case with their connectors. The main value of open sourcing a framework for integrations (e.g. Singer), is to allow customers to easily support a large number of long tail integrations that exist out there.
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Java Applets.
They were portable, they were in the www. Also i like the Java language.

I dunno how a company can fail with such a good product.

I assume the problem was Oracles security model:
Allow the app todo everything?
no?! then i won't start.
Yes?! ok i can do everything!

smile
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Suggested editorialization:

"Nation wide Brazilian exposes privates"
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I’m curious about this. What kinds of load is your company is running? How do you take them offline and online so quickly without affecting production or leading to long restart cycles?
Ronald Reagan had a hand to play in this, and the AIDS epidemic in america can be seen as the real birth of the neoconservative movement in united states' politics.

Regan refused to even acknowledge the disease until he couldn't get away. This put the US on a deficit addressing AIDS that continues to this day.

American Republicanism kills people.
What exactly did you think you were doing when you backed the Kickstarter?

Kickstarter is not an online store that you buy something and it just takes a long time for you to receive.

You are essentially investing in an idea and in a company. You have to do the due diligence to make sure you are comfortable with the risks involved. That’s why, in theory, you pay cheaper than you would once the product launches.

You should know what you are buying into before you do it. If you are not comfortable with the risk, the course of action is to wait until the desired product/service hits the market and is actually sold somewhere.
The whole point of a backup service is that most of the time you don't need it at all, but when you do need it you really need it. From that perspective, it's like paying for insurance.

I'm not a tarsnap customer, but I think what you're paying for is a service built by a literal obsessive genius that will 100% work when the chips are down.
applets were long dead before oracle came into the picture
I had a GPD MicroPC. I fell in love with the idea of having something with a real serial port I can sling in my bag. Terrible "typing" experience (you type with two thumbs), but it did what it claimed, for a while.

9 months later, my battery life was down to less than 1 second on battery. Not impressed.
Especially anyone who works in law, government, banking, or healthcare.
It's a blog article yet has no date on it.
Why are these sites so obnoxious and secretive. Let us know when the blog was written.

34 days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25517628 (115 comments)

https://itnext.io/we-rendered-a-million-web-pages-to-find-ou... (Dec 22, 2020 - repost from CatchJS)

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> Something important changed between the 90s and today. If you look at most open source projects now, the distribution of who’s doing the work versus who’s simply there is skewed dramatically: it’s common to see projects where 95% of the work is done by a nucleus of people, perhaps even a single developer, with a long tail of “contributors”

Any evidence this has actually changed between the 90s and now?

I have a strong suspicion that it's always been this way.

There are exceptional projects where the work is more distributed (is Linux an example?), but my suspicion is that they were exceptional in the 90s and still are, and that all along most projects have this "dramatic skew" as described.

For software of now, you can look at github. For software of the 90s, 2000s... I wonder if anyone has tried to research this?

I definitely don't see any reason to assume it was different without evidence.
I guess these Hard Drive Stats post cover disks used for their B2 service as well? Maybe the service mix is changing (a larger percentage being used for B2 versus their traditional backup service).

I'm not sure how more B2 access pattern would improve the stat though.
The original poster used the terms used by the technology. The best choices for changing this terminology would be to write a treatise for HN consumption (to reach the community at large) or to contact the authors of the technology that use this terminology (to fix the origin in this case). Sniping a 'random internet poster' is just lazy trolling.
It might not be intentional to break the site experience for adblock users - but there is a number of sites that has implemented link tracking in a way that overrides the normal click (though sometimes not keypress) events, to let the tracking code do its thing. If the tracking code is blocked or fails to load, that means a lot of actions break.

Best part? Trying to convince the operators of such sites that users they cannot see in their "analytics solution" are worth fixing their site for is not exactly a straightfoward job - from their narrow view, these users simply do not exist, because the tracking does not show them!
Noticing degradation in connection quality in Boston, MA. ISP is Verizon FIOS - operating on the 1 Gbps plan.
Is it safe to say that Backblaze essentially has an O(logn) algorithm for labor due to drive installation and maintenance, so up front costs and opportunity costs due to capacity weigh heavier in the equation?

The rest of us don’t have that, so a single disk loss can ruin a whole Saturday. Which is why we appreciate that you guys post the numbers as a public service/goodwill generator.
So your contention is that we should continue to do things that are known to be harmful because there is a bigger harm being perpetuated somewhere else and we have to solve that before we can even talk about other issues?

Do you really not see how that isn't a very smart way to go about things?
Rather than open source, let us return to Free Software. The point of our labor is not to ensure that we are paid; it is to tear down the systems which create inequality and scarcity in the first place.
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Wikipedia didn't load for me for a full minute around 12:45 EST.
downdetector.com did well today. Front page showed a generalized web issue, and any one of the individual services' status pages showed it was geographically localized to the midatlantic and northeast US.
Hmm. I think it would be better if the extension clicked randomly rather than clicked on all ads. That would cause the numbers to be much harder to interpret, and ad agencies or departments would have a much harder time measuring their efficacy or justifying their existence.
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magnets.
> Twitter will definitely compete and take marketshare from Substack with lower fees from 20% to 5%.

Twitter's willingness to silence users for political reasons will ensure this service never competes with Substack in any meaningful way.

I don't doubt that it will be popular, but you won't see top-tier independent journalists building their houses on a Twitter's land after what we learned in the past year.
Good of them to do this as if it's useful, we will find out pretty fast. If they have a Vault integration, that would be helpful as well. Solving IAM/IAA problems and designing products are orthogonal concerns, and to me that they're building a product around just managing asymmetric key pairs is a positive note.

An authentication scheme is only ever as secure as its recovery process, so that's going to be where the magic happens.
If you’re going by that table we should be studying Burundi. There is certainly a data quality element to be considered when trying to comparison shop.

Incidentally, and purely anecdotally, when living in Minsk a couple months I found Belorussians both particularly well educated on civics matters and quite interested and participatory in advocating and acting for collective improvement. Aside from data quality challenges among various regimes, perhaps they’re not the counter example you imply they are?
Tmux & Vim with a bunch of plugins.

And most of the languages I use are in the OS's package manager. Setup is "apt-get/brew install ..." followed by "hg clone ..." for my plugins and settings.

So, direct answer would be "a few minutes."
There's some lesson in here about preferring open standards to proprietary software, but good luck finding anybody of import willing to learn it.
> Georgia, for example, is a mess.

States and election officials of states run elections. They are given a lot of latitude in how they run elections, limited by state law and state constitution edits that are also controlled by state legislatures. State courts can only evaluate wrong doing based on those rules, laws, and such, if they are messed up, the courts can't fix them unilaterally.

> You can't have video of people walking in with their outside clothes, without going through the processes and then say, "You have to prove that it contaminated the room." You don't; it's enough to show the process was tainted.

That is not how law works in the USA or any country that I'm aware of. You have to prove that wrong doing occurred, not prove that wrong doing did not occur. The burden of proof is always on the accuser, not the defendant. Science works the same way (something is a theory if it can't be disproven, not if it can be proven that it can't be disproven).
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Thank you for sharing this.

It's interesting to see that even these big websites potentialy still have a lot of room for improvement for their loading times.
Yeah hard to say, I assume the diversity of their customers and normal distribution should statistic those patterns out but I have no clue :)

I also wonder if failures are relating to physical location on disk vs other things like controller or mechanical failures.

You may not be reading old files but you’re reading files, or not, so still depends also on over all utilization.
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I still think you are lucky, for me you are like a Superman who never attempted to fly. Ability is there, you know you have it, but you stayed on the ground as you do not see the point of flying :).

Maybe you just need to find a way to utilize it better?
I think that they put the user information in the image using something like this[1].

[1]. https://github.com/subc/steganography
I am having a really hard time holding onto Firefox as my mobile (Android) browser. The interface takes several taps all over the display to accomplish basic tasks.

For example: Looking at a site and want to open your "hacker news" top site in a new tab?

1) Scroll up until you trigger the top bar reveal

2) Tap the boxed number button next to the address bar

3) Way at the bottom of the display, tap (+) to open a new tab

4) At this point the keyboard appears with the address bar focused. I don't want that, so tap in the tab home screen background where Top Sites can be seen

5) Tap on hacker news "top site"

That's 5 gestures, each in a new area of the screen, just to open a web site. Palm Pilot famously put nearly every common feature in the entire OS within 3 taps of the home screen.

I really hope Mozilla can do better than this!
Compared to what, exactly? Tape is cheaper per GB, but the drives and libraries tip that over the other way. Blu-Ray discs are now more expensive per GB than hard drives, thanks to SMR and He offerings.

Also note that Backblaze does backups -- by definition, these are infrequently accessed, usually write-once-read-never. I've personally been a customer for three years and performed a restore exactly once.
Another Wayland compositor written in Zig is ifreund/river [1].

Isaac, the author, gave a talk on choosing C vs Rust vs Zig on Zig SHOWTIME a while back [2] and also has an upcoming talk at FOSDEM 21 [3]

[1] https://github.com/ifreund/river
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwrA5IRGpfU
[3] https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/zig_wayland/
You might want to check out Eric Flint’s 1632 series. A small Virginia mining town is sent back in time and translocated to 1631 Germany, the series goes into how they try to build up a more technologically advanced civilization. S. M. Stirling‘s Nantucket series is somewhat similar. Nantucket is sent back in time to 1250 BC and they try to build a society there. David Weber’s Safehold series has a different premise, it’s set in the far future on a planet with medieval level technology. A lot of it is about the protagonists trying to build up their tech level.
Given that you can buy LTO-1 (commercialized in 2000) drives and tapes today, and given the size of the market, I suspect they'll be around.
I'm hopeful that this is a step towards getting an injectable on a longer time scale even though it's likely the treatment technology would be different. If we could get to something on a 2-year or 5-year time horizon we may just start giving it to everyone preventatively, the way we do tetanus shots. The larger volume might mean enough total profits at a price scale that makes it affordable for the pharma company to do that at a price point that makes sense for the buyer. If we get to a universal treatment that we can apply globally, we may see AIDS become a thing of the past in a few generations. Given unequal access to care that may be substantially challenging in regions with poor health care and we may need an outright vaccine that lasts permanently to successfully treat it globally. But this seems to be a step along that pathway even if new technologies are needed to complete it.
Note: when the above post was posted, the HN title was “My Pillow CEO banned from Twitter for saying ’not my president’”, which was a ridiculous editorialized, misleading title which reflects neither the source title nor the source content.

The post makes more sense as a response to that flamebait title than actual article.
Not sure how applicable this is to Macs but I found that
blocklists based on the hosts file cover almost all ads. The
only exceptions I encountered were YouTube ads as well as ads
hosted directly on the website, which is pretty rare nowadays.
I use the same set of dotfiles for each dev box. You can expect each client to have its own ssh, git, and hooks and scripts, for example Ansible. I recommend getting those all under version control.

Each vpn will have its own dns and subnets. You might reduce context switching by setting those at your firewall or router instead of dev box. I do this for projects with multiple dev boxes, any hardware or server project will have more than one machine that might need to cross their vpn.

Combining several layers of vpn is tedious. For dns, I’ve needed my own local dns server to forward different domains for different clients. The stock dns server on consumer firewall routers often won’t do domain-level forwarding well.
I want one, but I just bought a M1 MacBook Pro.

I wonder how Linux runs on the P2 Max? Amazing that it only weighs 1 pound.
Firefox performance has gotten quite good but scrolling still isn't right. On Mac subjectively it feels like it's delayed around 1-2 frames compared to Safari. I've read some of the tickets for APZ etc and it doesn't feel like anything obvious is getting neglected. Does anyone here know more about this?
Op is pointing out the argument is tautological and doesn’t add anything insightful to the discussion. All tautological statements are true.

You could similarly write:

“Lazy software development is why websites are slow because slow websites are caused by lazy development.”

“Greedy business practices are why websites are slow because advertising slows down the web and advertising is the result of greedy business practices”.

These are feel good statements that don’t actually provide any insight on the market forces at play nor provide any path to improving things.
Sarcasm only works if it can succesfully comunicate that it is sarcasm; be it body language, face expression, absurdity, or memeing. On the internet you are a random faceless stranger to me, so how can I distinguish sarcasm other than guessing?

If the priors were the other way then people would complain that nobody takes anyone seriously.
Can you elaborate on your setup?
Is this the same as the old privacy.firstparty.isolate setting in about:config? If not what's different?
> 10-minute-padded

Is THAT what it is? I thought a lot of people were just bad speakers, guess I was naive.
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Why are people being so negative about this?

If the terms whitelist/blacklist are hurtful to some people because of all the racial baggage we've applied to the words white and black, why not switch to allow/deny instead?

Using allow/deny is more explicit and doesn't rely on the benign cultural associations with the colors black and white.
The choice of colors used here is arbitrary. For example, one could just as easily use green/red in reference to traffic signal colors. Ask yourself, would it bother you if we used blue and pink for allow and deny? What if we used blue or white as synonymous with deny?

Two good reasons exist to change our habits, basic manners and clarity.

I'm sure I'll use the terms blacklist and whitelist from time to time out of accumulated habit. But there's no reason for me to cling to those terms. Being gently reminded to use objectively clearer terminology shouldn't engender hostility on my part. I try not to be an unpleasant person, part of that is when someone tells me my behavior has a negative impact on them, I try to listen to what they say and modify my behavior--while actually effecting change can be hard, the underlying concept is pretty simple.
I am an admitted SBC addict.
Yup.... shell (via subsidiary newmotion.com) just changed their pricing model in the Netherlands. From variable pricing per charging point (most cheaper than 35ct), they now have a fixed 35ct /kwh overall.

In practice it means my charging went from 18 or 25ct to 35ct/kwh. Lets just say I haven't used shell-recharge/newmotion since they implemented this last month.
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Very well written article. After a long time, I read an article from top to bottom without losing focus.
Without exaggeration, the prospect of Alphabet having control over advanced AI sounds like a nightmare in the making.
Is your drive usage really homogenous or do you have situations where slightly more reliable drives are prioritized? Like say for servers or logging.
Like to have stress free user support experience when encounter issues online, such as password reset, slow response or broken features.
"Personhood" seems a very arbitrary (and not at all clearly defined) qualification here. "Understanding" arises from thinking, not from "personhood". And surely, there are non-person minds that understand less complex things. That they can evolve to achieve person-caliber capabilities incrementally and over long periods of time is well-accepted.

As an aside, we can't communicate very well with the smartest animals, so we don't know how much they can understand. It could be more than most of us think.
Is the battery user-replaceable on one of those? I'd taken a look, as I sometimes work with serial devices in weird places, but if the battery is a little suspect and I might run it down, it's probably harder to justify the price if I can't swap the battery out eventually.
Most, if not all, commercial newsql distributed databases do range based splitting of the data, with each range managed by a raft group. Raft groups get migrated between nodes to avoid hot spots, among other scheduling criteria. TiDB does this for sure, I'd be surprised if CockroachDB (and yugabyte and dgraph) doesn't do it.
It's 30% of profit, not income, so more akin to someone taking 30% of your savings or "fun" money.
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+1, [Citation Needed].
That’s the main benefit.

But also you can have more flexible block patterns. I run DNSCrypt-Proxy and my block lists can have wildcards. With /etc/hosts you have to enumerate each origin. It can also do things like IP blocking where if any domain resolves to a known ad network IP, then that request is blocked.

But mainly, DNSCrypt-proxy encrypts all my outgoing queries and round robins them across resolvers. (Also hi dheera!)
Firefox just walked away from a key piece of the open web
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Yeah that is fair. I am admittedly basic in my understanding of movies. From the outside it does feel as if one side is more prolific.
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Totally anecdotal, but I feel open source projects were much more community oriented in the 90s and the 00s. But after that, it seems they’re either driven by a company, or an individual. That would roughly conform to the article’s timeline of GitHub adoption.
I assume you're mainly referring to Trump.

Inciting a coup is technically a political reason, but I think most people agree that's a valid reason to silence someone.
> Further, rotating layers to change the bulk performance of materials composed of anisotropic plies is very old technology developed originally for aerospace / racing applications.

> Ansys has an entire package devoted to the analysis of structures made from anisotropic materials in this way.

Also, if you read your link paper, they are not doing anything different that what has been known for a long time in long-fiber composites - see: https://www.liebertpub.com/cms/10.1089/3dp.2020.0172/asset/i...